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A popular Babalawo or Ife priest character in Yoruba movies, Adewale Alebiosu has warned actors from playing such roles in movies.<\/p>\n
He revealed that reciting some incantations in movies had some adverse effects on him in real life.<\/p>\n
Alebiosu, who spoke with BBB Yoruba, said he was just doing his job as an actor, and that he never knew the incantations he was reciting could come to haunt him in real life.<\/p>\n
The film star told\u00a0BBC Yoruba<\/strong>\u00a0that many actors fail to understand that incantations bear hidden powers beneath.<\/p>\n Alebiosu also spoke about how role stereotyping made viewers assume he was into spiritism and voodoo beyond acting.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople often think of me as a native doctor. This is not the case. I\u2019ve never been a native doctor, and neither has my father. When I first started acting, which I learned from Taiwo Balogun, I loved incantations,\u201d the actor said.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter I left him, I met with one of my bosses, Fatai Adetayo Oodua. That was when I started using incantations. Filmmakers were the ones who made people start to ask why it was solely the native doctor roles I was being given.<\/p>\n \u201cActing shaped people\u2019s perception of me as a wicked man. I\u2019m not that dangerous. My parents are both Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n Alebiosu narrated how he entered a trance while drumming for a church service and how he became a Christian.<\/p>\n \u201cI was born a Muslim, until when a church was doing a harvest service and they didn\u2019t have a drummer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe congregation pointed to me as someone who is into theatre and drums as well. They started singing and I was drumming, but my head began to swell. I didn\u2019t know when I fell to the ground and started sprawling.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was when I got out of the trance that people told me what happened. That was how I became a minister of God. All those incantations you see in films, I don\u2019t do anything beyond that. It\u2019s just acting; even my elders know this.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I get to the church, I do church activities as well. There are times when we as actors utter incantations without knowing that there are hidden meanings & powers behind those words.\u201d<\/p>\n Alebiosu said, \u201cI never knew there was so much more to the incantations I was delivering. I thought I was just delivering my lines, not knowing there are repercussions to follow. Whenever I get home after the act, while I sleep I would see some strange beings, and some would turn to goats and start biting me.\u201d<\/p>\n Alebiosu warned that the coming generation who wants to play the role of a Babalawo should be very careful and be ready to be prayerful. According to him, the role requires all sorts of precautions.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m saying this to warn them so that they don\u2019t end up regretting their lives or ending up miserably,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cActors who want to play traditional priests and native doctors should pray fervently. When I\u2019m called on set, the filmmakers see I came in a bike or taxi,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cThey start asking if I have no car of my own. I tell them I don\u2019t and they are shocked. They feel pity for me. But the words I hear from them hurt me. Those I trained have become wealthy. If I offended god, he should forgive me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A popular Babalawo or Ife priest character in Yoruba movies, Adewale Alebiosu has warned actors from playing such roles in movies. He revealed that reciting some incantations in movies had some adverse effects on him in real life. Alebiosu, who spoke with BBB Yoruba, said he was just doing his job as an actor, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}